[rescue] SGI Fuel

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 08:51:28AM -0600, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Bjorn Ramqvist wrote:
> > 
> > So, wadda ya think? :-)
> 
> Oooooh.  Shiiiny.  The name stinks, though.
> 
> > It looks nice to me, but I miss XIO...
> 
> XIO's great, until you want to plunk down the cash for a new SCSI or
> Ethernet card.  Besides, this is a uniprocessor system; perhaps SGI have a
> higher-end cousin planned for it that will be multiprocessing and have
> XIO?
> 
> Hopefully this use of PCI will turn out better than the last time SGI
> tried to use an industry-standard expansion bus.  As far as I know, the
> 3Com FastEthernet was the only card that ever got ported to Indigo2/EISA.

PCI already is used sorta will in the O2 and Octanes.  Origins also have PCI,
but I've never actually heard of anyone using it.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd